Is ordering of <link rel=“stylesheet” …> and [removed] tags significant?

Question

(I apologize if this is an extremely basic question. I\'m a bit of an HTML noob.)

In HTML5, is the relative ordering within the element, o

Answer 1

for performance, CSS first then JS...(but JS yields best performance at the end of the markup as noted in some of the other answers)

stylesheets should always be specified in the head of a document for better performance, it's important, where possible, that any external JS files that must be included in the head (such as those that write to the document) follow the stylesheets, to prevent delays in download time.

quote from Optimize the order of styles and scripts (from Google's "Make the Web Faster" Best Practices docs)